“With what they’ve got structured here, I mean this is an unbelievable situation. I hope they go to the Big East, I really do,” said Memphis coach Josh Pastner. “Because they’re a really good basketball team. Very well coached, good guys and they’re getting really great recruits and they played great tonight.

“So, uh, I don’t have any weight, but I’m all for them going to another conference,” Pastner said jokingly as his team fought from behind in the second half.

The Big East seems like a big jump for UCF men’s basketball right now, but who knows what the future holds five years from now?

It would be easy to write off the UCF men’s basketball team now that the team is on an eight-game losing streak after an impressive 14-0 start. But of the past eight games, just three were double digit losses.

UCF was one bad possession away from beating Memphis Wednesday and led for much of the second half. Obviously, there is much room for growth here, but I see potential in what Donnie Jones is attempting to build.

UCF has it’s weaknesses, but this one is poor coaching if the players were not instructed to use the fouls they still had to give; make Memphis bring the ball in from out of bounds. ( put the 7 footer on the ball, etc).